Felt
Felt moved professional GIS into the browser — maps, spatial analysis and dashboards with multiplayer editing, now aimed squarely at organizations that once needed desktop suites. Lyft, Lime and Unilever sit on its logo wall.
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A school of work
The editorial school
The printed page's discipline, translated — grids, pacing, generous margins.
8 pieces hang here
Letterboxd
Letterboxd is the social network for film diaries — log what you watch, rate it out of five stars, read strangers' four-word reviews that outwit most critics. Born in New Zealand, it became film culture's de facto public square.
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Sanctuary Computer
Sanctuary Computer is a New York software studio in the garden3d family, building products and technical systems for clients from startups to Nike and IBM. Its homepage leads with "working relationships" — the studio sells how it works as much as what it ships.
editorial school
Maggie Appleton
Maggie Appleton is a designer and anthropologist-by-training who illustrates programming and internet culture. Her site is a public digital garden — essays and notes published while still growing, each marked with how finished it claims to be.
illustration school
COLLINS
COLLINS is the independent brand studio behind identities for Dropbox, Spotify, Robinhood and the San Francisco Symphony. Its homepage opens with three words — "Rewrite your worth." — and lets the work carry the rest.
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Quanta Magazine
Quanta covers mathematics, physics, biology and computer science with a newsroom funded by the Simons Foundation and no ads to please. Its explanatory graphics and commissioned illustrations set the bar for making research legible.
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BIG — Bjarke Ingels Group
BIG is Bjarke Ingels' architecture practice, responsible for spiraling museums, ski-slope power plants and a good share of contemporary architecture's headlines. Its site is one long, quiet reel of the buildings themselves.
minimal school
Magnum Photos
Magnum is the photographer-owned cooperative founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and colleagues, still run by its member photographers. Its site is the working front door to one of the most consequential photo archives in existence.
editorial school